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Same thing people said when Warning and AI came out.

It will always pain me that RevRad/nothing from it got nominated for a Grammy.

i cannot believe i am able to take month long reprieves from this thread, and read through 100+ pages and have absolutely no knew knowledge to show for it

FOAM is so bad that we still have the RevRad font on GDC.

Agreed. I always think, what if the only two GD albums a person heard were Dookie and Insomniac, and the next they heard was 21CB? They wouldn't believe it was the same band. GD is more diverse than a lot of non-fans give them credit for.

Respect - you are very much entitled to that point. It's made me think though, what should Green Day sound like? Can you pinpoint their sound when in fact they are very much diverse in their sound. From Kerplunk, to Dookie, to AI to FOAM, what's the similarity and what's the difference. You may think I need my head examining but I really like FOAM. IMHO it's just the next step in the Green Day journey, and for me the right journey. And as @localinsomniac quite rightly said, the lyrics go hand in hand with the music. Which over the years have been very emotional to me including FOAM. Maybe stretching it at tad, for me The Network and Foxboro Hot Tubs is Green Day, coz they can do what the fuck they like, and that includes FOAM. And I love it all. That's why, I'm virtually shaking with excitement waiting for their next album, mainly because I've not got a fuckin clue what to expect, or what's coming. All I know is, whatever the album will be like, it will be the Green Day I love so much.

Okay real talk. I would prefer five FOAM-like albums in succession over one that just pays lip service to the fans. The honesty and relatability of Billie's lyrics were a big reason I got into this band. He writes what he's feeling, never what he thinks people want to hear. And if he's feeling like stabbing you in the heart or whatever, so be it. The man is half a century old; it would be silly to expect anyone with that much life experience to be writing about the same things ad nauseum for 30+ years. So, no- the next album won't sound like Kerplunk. It won't sound like AI or the trilogy or Squirrel Nut Zippers. Some of us will love it, some of us won't. But I can guarantee it will sound like Green Day.

More here: And no, they’re not gonna do anything. At best they will laugh about it, it’s just a joke.

Forget a Grammy, Im hoping they grab the top spot on TRL....maybe VH1's top 25, but that might be a Longshot

I find FOAM fun. Just a fun turn your brain off 26 minute thing. Nothing amazing but I do like it and have fun listening to it while working on stuff.

And god awful lyrics with zero substance (save for one or two songs).

The most disappointing thing about it to me wasn’t the music but the super short running time after a four year wait for a new album.

Yes, it can. Like it or not.

wtf in this house we love and respect Misery from listening to interviews and stuff I do think Billie does care a lot about what fans think, but Mike and Tre tell him to ignore it and do what he/they want. I feel like all artists feel that way at least half of the time. My only hope for this album currently is that we hear more again soon.

It's sad when fake Green Day news is better than real Green Day news

I’d love to see them back on top with a VMA, AMA, and a Grammy!!!

Wow a deep fake promotional stunt? That’s almost as interesting. I guess the next step is either Green Day confirming it or if the guy gets a cease and desist letter from their lawyers 😂 Whatever it is I’m here for it

Meet Me on the Roof is my favorite song on the record! I even recorded a cover of it!!! I posted it here a few months ago, but just in case anyone hasn’t heard it: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/gi6nwD9vZgucbwqr7

you've never listened to William Shatner's foray into music. FOAM is fun, I do enjoy a few songs. Mainly Oh Yeah! and Graffitia. Oh Yeah! has a fun video and I enjoy the video for Meet Me on the Roof, everyone involved seemed to have a lot of fun and genuinely be glad to be there.

I hope 1972 ends up being 40 minutes long at least. Or maybe we’ll get an hour long album if we’re lucky. I think 21CB was like, ironically, 72 minutes long!

But no two records sound the same, that's my point. FOAM can't not sound like Green Day by virtue of the fact that it was created by the same three people (minus 39/Smooth) as every other album.

Ah, new member 😂😂. Welcome.

I think Junkies on a High has some great lyrics too

What will follow are surely unpopular opinions, but the Trilogy IMHO has the worst lyrics in their discography (with a few exceptions in those 37 songs). RevRad has also some of the worst and most boring lyrics of their career. And in my opinion FOAM is above that in, even in its simpler lyric structure. Still nothing close to the pre-Trilogy eras, of course, but at least there was again quite a few fun sparkles that they mostly lacked for a while. Then yes, I agree with @pacejunkie punk, BJ had a very different approach to lyrics in that record, and one can hate it, totally fair. And if I have to choose between Jesus of Suburbia and Graffitia, I pick JoS any time of course. But between the best and the worst lyrics of FOAM and those of RevRad/the Trilogy, in many cases I would still pick a FOAM song. Exceptions made of course, their best post 21CB lyrics are still in Bang Bang IMHO, forever now is close up there.

Misery is fantastic! I want to know the future of the characters that survived that wild story. I'd be good with A 2nd Warning: We Also Told Ya So!

FOAM sucks and is possibly the biggest disappointment in music history

Yes and I guess they will ignore it. Suggests lots of folk are still interested in them though I suppose.

This was an ultimate test to us

Why always us.

I kinda hope it fucking sucks.

So now Green Day is the go to band to pretend you’re somehow affilliated with? that’s what they get for not sueing the first time!

There’s one problem with this and many theory/speculations I’m reading. They assume the band will compose and put out music based on some willingness to appeal to this or that part of the fandom, or as they say here to “try to unite their fans more”. In my opinion one constant that characterized GD throughout their career is that they do not give a fuck about fan service and putting out music based on what their fanbase might or might not want, for the good and for the bad. Thanks to this not giving a fuck about fan service, thanks to the fact that they just put out the music they like to write and play at a certain point of their career, we got some of their best records, and some of their most controversial ones. FOAM is a clear example of this, as Warning, as Dookie, as AI, as Nimrod, as the Trilogy. This is why I find extremely ridiculous that someone still buy into the conspiracy theory of “FOAM was a joke record to piss off this or that”, and why I believe whatever the new record is gonna be is not gonna be that because BJ is thinking about what a teenager or a 40yo dude wants to listen in his bedroom. Even less to find a compromise between that. It’s gonna be what these three 50yo want to put out now. Bad or good we’ll see. But they don’t give a fuck about mine or your desires. Just my opinion of course. And IMHO thank god they don’t give a fuck or we’d be listening to Kerplunk 14, or not because they would not exist anymore.

I want a tour with salt & pepper hair for godsake. I want his true self on stage !!

I'm not gonna lie I expected you to be waaaaay younger dude...wow Great cover too

His lyric style has changed no doubt, but I dispute the allegation that they lack substance. The meaning is just more deeply hidden, but he continues to write about what he’s feeling that hasn’t changed. It’s just less explicit. I would argue years of celebrity has made him more withholding and self protective of his feelings, even as he tries to stay true to himself as an artist. It’s difficult to maintain both privacy and openness.

There's no way this new album is half as good as FOAM. Sorry guys.

FOAM rocks and sounds like Green Day.

I mean we kinda already have a general idea of the sound from what we heard so far in the teasers, plus this Instagram story that Billie accidentally posted

That's cool man. I don't like it much either...but it's still a Green Day album

Son of a beach... We even ended up on the video

its “april fools” day in many hispanic countries today

I’ll be very happy if it’s epic, I just want it to good/enjoyable Green Day.

The more I think about it the more obvious I think it's an hoax. Reading the Instagram replies it doesn't feel like how BJA would write. But Emlan is a real band. Since January 2022. If it's an hoax (I'm really sure it is) then what's happening on January 1st 2023?

But I seriously think we’re in for something EPIC!!!

oh wow ... billie/green day doing something nice for another artist and you are throwing your toys out the pram because it's not what you wanted ? 🙃

Who the fuck is emlan This is really weird but why not I guess

I think he’ll probably dye it dark again for the PR period but I hope he lets it go natural, he looks so good with it and he should know we love him regardless of his hair!

Bet you $100 he dyes it dark brown/black again when promo starts.

A person (53F) is in a stable relationship with a partner (50M). Is this toxic? Let's find out this holiday season!